Newsmakers

Dutta’s appointment garners world-wide attention

When Johnson announced
that Soumitra Dutta would
become its eleventh dean on
Jan. 9, 2012, media organizations
around the globe covered
the news, generating more
than 60 original stories and
300 total stories. Publications
that covered the story included
including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Times of India,
The Economist, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. The media
reported on Dutta as the first dean recruited from outside the
U.S. by a major U.S. business school, and on his track record in
expanding executive education, including the executive MBA, at
INSEAD. Dutta is a native of India, where major media reported
on his position as one of three India-born academics recently
appointed as deans of top-tier U.S. business schools.